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Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Warrior Cutting Hair

c. 480–470 BC

attributed to Oionokles Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 480–460 BC)

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 43.5 x 16.5 cm (17 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)

The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1928.660

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102B Greek

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The painter lavished great detail on this warrior’s armor, even including a lion on his helmet’s cheekpiece!

Description

Whether cutting his hair or combing it, this solitary warrior seems to be contemplating his fate. If mythological, he may be Parthenopaios or another of the ill-fated Seven Against Thebes, a band of warriors tasked with overthrowing that central Greek city. The Seven left mementos for their loved ones before departing, and he may be cutting a lock of hair for this reason. The same motive might apply to historical soldiers as well, and he may represent one of the many Greeks who battled the Persians around the time this vase was made. Unfortunately, the inscriptions painted on either side of the figure seem to be nonsense—actual Greek letters that do not spell out recognizable names or words.

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Provenance

?-1928

Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1928-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 207549 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Reproduced: cover archive.org

Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 648, No. 37

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 20 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 20 archive.org

Thompson, Dorothy Burr. An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora. (Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture Book No. 12). Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971. p. 19, fig. 35.

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 20, plate 31

Boardman, John. "Heroic Haircuts." The Classical Quarterly 23, no. 2 (1973): 196-97. Mentioned in n. 5. www.jstor.org

Kunisch, Norbert. "Parthenopaios." Antike Kunst 17, no. 1 (1974): 39-41. Taf. 8,1. www.jstor.org

Boardman, John. Athenian Red Figure Vases, the Archaic Period: A Handbook. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. P. 195, fig. 361.

Dusenbery, Elsbeth B. "Two Attic Red-Figured Kraters in Samothrace," Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol.47, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1978), pp. 211-243. Mentioned at p. 228, n. 55. www.jstor.org

Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. Reproduced & mentioned: pp. 164-165, cat. 94 www.perseus.tufts.edu

Burn, Lucilla, Ruth Glynn, and J. D. Beazley. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1982. p. 134

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 17, no. 19

Elfriede R. Knauer, "Ou gar en amis: A Chous by the Oionokles Painter," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 3. Pp. 91-100 (CMA vase mentioned in nn. on pp. 99-100).

Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 275

Serbeti, Eleftheria D. "The Oionokles Painter," Boreas: Münstersche Beiträge zur Archäologie 12 (1989), pp. 17-46. See esp. pp. 17-22, 40-46.

Jarva, Eero. "Archaiologia on Archaic Greek Body Armour". Studi Archaeologica Septentrionalia 3 Rovaniemi: Pohjois-Suomen historiallinen yhdisys, 1995. p. 31, Fig. 8

Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. p. 791, no. 3202

Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. p. 22

Herodotus, Aubrey De Sélincourt, and John Marincola. The histories. London: Folio Society, 2006. p. 380

Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 32

Arrington, Nathan T. Ashes, Images, and Memories: The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens. Oxford Univ. Press, 2015. p. 37, n. 77.

Girard, Thibaut. L'oblique dans le monde grec: concept et imagerie. 2015. p. 147, Fig.139

Osborne, Robin. The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. p. 234, Fig. 10.6

Oakley, John Howard. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 173-174, fig. 8.8

Exhibition history

Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980).

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